http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2AJ7Vcxk3w I’m sure I’ve Stumbled this before (devs: Search function, pleeeeease!) but went looking for it again after a back and forth with the Good Pastor. An emotional 6 minutes of a high school Challenge Day activity called “Crossing the Line”, designed to show students that they all have connections, even bullies and their victims. […]
Tag Archives: Psychology
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http://www.clickypic.com/data/004/10.1371_journal.pbio.0040302.g004-L.jpg A photo showing a newborn monkey’s mirror neurons at work. I once saw a documentary that showed human newborns have the same abilities immediately after birth, and always press my pregnant friends to try it out. (For some reason, though, they get all caught up with the “oh look at my beautiful new baby” […]
Chaos Begets Chaos & SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/chaos_begets_chaos.php Broken window theory (BWT), first proposed by James Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, holds that the presence of disorder – in the form of broken windows, litter, and graffiti – can encourage delinquent behavior. BWT promotes a “nip it in the bud” stance toward crime prevention: Fix small problems (like litter) before big […]
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1794571.htm If you want to be a big hit at speed-dating, walk tall, say UK scientists. Their survey found that taller men are more likely to get a date. The University of Essex scientists calculated that for every 2.5 centimetres taller a man is than his speed-dating rivals, the number of women who want to […]
Pareidolia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Word of the Moment: Pareidolia, n. A psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable. Common examples include images of animals or faces in clouds, seeing the man in the moon, and hearing messages on records played in reverse. (from Greek para- amiss, faulty, wrong. eidolon, […]
Personality Tests
http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html The Jung tests (particularly the longer ones) are fascinating.